Re: Wheel "\|/-" instead of dots "......"

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:07:19 +0100,
Christoph Plattner wrote:
> Because of the changes to the new etherboot stuff (good work),
> the wheel - indicating the net download progress - was replaced
> by a big chain of dots (new behavior in etherboot).
> 
> For GRUB this does not look very nice, beucause a big initrd
> will fillup the screen with dots and the all GRUB messages are
> scrolled away.
> 
> IMO we should change back to whell while loading data from net.
> This looks more professional for GRUB.

While I understand what you mean, I don't think the rolling bar is
good, either. When running "cat", it was just annoying to see several
marks with the real contents of a file.

So I even think of not displaying anything as an indicator of data
transfers. Or, it might be better to put an indicator on somewhere
appropriate (e.g. the end of the screen) and erase it before printing
real information. I guess this is not so easy to implement, though.

What do you think about this:

* Nothing is displayed as an indicator by default.
* Dots or something else are displayed in verbose mode (or debug mode).

Thanks,
Okuji